AI CV maker · built for UK jobs
A CV tailored to the job you actually want.
Create your CV. Paste the job you’re applying for. Shortlist shows how well you match and rewrites your real experience in the employer’s language. You don’t need to know anything about CV writing or ATS keywords.
- Free to start
- No subscription needed
- Never invents experience
How it works
Three steps.
About ten minutes.
Most people use the same CV for every job. Shortlist makes it easy to send a different, better one each time.
- 01
Tell us about you — or upload your old CV
Jobs, education, skills, volunteering, projects. Rough notes are fine: “worked at Tesco, did the tills” is a perfectly good start.
- 02
Paste the job you’re applying for
Shortlist reads the advert and pulls out the skills, qualifications, keywords and responsibilities the employer cares about.
- 03
Accept, edit or reject each suggestion
Watch your match score climb as your real experience is rewritten for this role. Switch templates any time, then download.
Your words, made professional
We improve what you tell us. We never make things up.
Every suggestion is built from experience you’ve actually given us. If a job asks for something you don’t have, we tell you it’s missing. We don’t pretend you have it.
- No invented jobs, qualifications or results
- Anything we’re unsure about needs your confirmation
- You approve every single change
You wrote
“Worked at Tesco and helped customers.”
Suggested for Customer Service Advisor
Provided friendly and efficient customer service in a fast-paced retail environment, assisting customers with enquiries and resolving issues.
Other CV builders
“Make a beautiful CV.”
500 templates, then you’re on your own with a blank page and the same CV for every job.
Shortlist
“Make a CV for the job you want.”
Job Match score
See how well you fit, in plain English
UK-style CVs
Personal profile, GCSEs, A-levels, no photo
Simple pricing
Pay once from £4.99, no subscription
Cover letters
Written from the CV you’ve already made
Made for people who just need a job. Not CV experts.
Most of our users are 18–30 and applying for retail, hospitality, admin, warehouse and graduate roles.
Free tool
Is your CV ATS-friendly?
Many employers use software to filter CVs before a person reads them. Paste a job advert and we’ll check your CV against it for free, with a score and a list of things to fix.
Check my CV for freeCV report
64We found 7 things you could improve
- No personal profile at the top
- Duties listed, not achievements
- Missing keyword: “customer service”
- Two-column layout may confuse ATS parsers
- Dates are inconsistent across roles
Pricing
Try it free. Pay once when you’re happy.
Most people only need a CV for one job hunt, so most of our plans are one-off payments. Pro is there if you’re applying every week.
Free
Build and preview your CV
£0
- Create your CV
- Basic templates
- Basic CV editing
- Live CV preview
- Free Job Match score
One-time CV
One polished CV, yours to keep
£4.99one-off
- Premium templates
- AI improvements
- Job matching
- PDF download
- No subscription
Complete application
Everything for one job
£9.99one-off
- Everything in One-time CV
- Job-specific CV tailoring
- Tailored cover letter
- Full job-match analysis
- PDF downloads
Pro
For an active job hunt
£14.99/month
- Unlimited CV tailoring
- Unlimited cover letters
- Multiple CV versions
- Application tracker
- AI interview preparation